, 1887-03-10

ing, Dick Keeling, lessee of the Stine
house, went out of the hotel to go
home. A flicker of light in the old
Eversz shop back of CoX's store
caught his eye, and after regarding
it Il moment he stepped back and
called the clerk to ask If that didn't
look like II fire. The light seen be-
tween the boards of the shop grew
brighter and Mr.. Keeling ran across
the street to arouse the Cinnamon in
the washhouse next to the suspected
building, and then with assistance
he burst in the alley door of the shop
and found the whole interior on the
ground floor ablaze. All this occupl-
ed but Il couple of minutes and the
alarm was promptly given and was
presently sounded from the bell
towers. The old structure went like
tinder; the store in front was soon
ablaze and then the tiams flew over
and around StraightS brick next
east and caught shells barber shop
and LeBoucher's saloon, while
Schwarz's saloon building and con-
tigous structures, from the corneron
the west began to blaze furiously.
The heat on all sides of Straight's be-
came so intense that the roof and in
terror seemed to burst ut once into
mass of flame. The blaze progressed
rapidly eastward till DR.. Days brick
at Main and Third streets was reach
ed. Meanwhile Our Boys, Tigers
and the ousted RescueS were light
ing manfully against the over
whelming odds, and succeeded in
saving Third street south from the
alley.
At nearly . o'clock the City hotel
took fire, the flames showing In the
roof and upper interior at once. The
wind was now so accelerated that
this meant the DOOM of all the frame
structures I'm the block ut least.
West, north and east went the blaze
sweeping away the wooden build
ings and taking hold on Bauer's aud
the city hall. The alley and Rose
! street Chinese houses and bagnios
were all licked up in few minutes.
The heat from the Palace saloon and
city building now endangered the
next block, beginning with the q. Z.
store and the warehouse and frame
row to the rear on Third. At one
time the roof of Jones' agricultural
warehouse wRs on fire but an engine
stream and work with the store hose
conquered i'm this direction. About
1900 feet of hose on Third street
caught fire and was destroyed.
The flames were not well subdued
until o'clock.
a man appeared on the roof Of
City hotel when the structure was
wrapped in flames below. Many
saw him and thought him doomed.
After looking about in Il dazed way
for time, he caught hold Of I'm iron
rod, climbed along it up over the
apex of the roof, and disappeared,
not to be seen again by the crowd.
In the ruins of the hotel, at the back
end, the partly consumed remains
| of man were found this morning
| in a mass OF small debris, including
| bed springs. James ~. Bell, lately
of Wallula, and in the employ of
| Gus Harris, the butcher, had gone to
bed in room lG of the hotel, the
night before, while very much intoX-
icated. Bell is missing to-day, and
! the corpse is supposed to be his.
fI;ttc this afternoon the rcmutIs of
another human being, almost totally
destroyed, were found i'm the hotel
ruins. A key check found in .6he
same spot and marked 81. Suther-
land, Portland, Ore.," may be II
means of Identification. One of
these corpses is, doubtless, that OF
the man on the roof. The second
find may be dogs remains.
The corOner's jury concluded that
the remains first found are those of
Bell.